linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] AMD microcode fixes

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Message-ID: <20110203152911.GA32399@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:29:11 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] AMD microcode fixes

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:35:48AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org> wrote:
> 
> > There's one out-of-tree change to <drivers/base/sys.c> which Greg hasn't
> > explicitly acked yet but judging by his silence he has nothing against
> > it :).
> 
> Hm, the drivers/base/sys.c portion is not particularly small:
> 
> >  arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c  |  142 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> >  arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c |    6 +-
> >  drivers/base/sys.c               |   65 ++++++++++++-----
> >  3 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
> 
> So i'd really like to have an Acked-by from Greg.
> 
> Greg, what's your take on this? The patches are here:

My take was that I NAKed it, Borislav was going to redo this series
without this patch in it as it was not necessary for his microcode
changes.

thanks,

greg k-h
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